[24] Rerum Scotorum Historia, Lib. X. Cf. App. A.
[25] Top. Hib., Dis. III, cap. xi.
[26] Britannia, section Scoti.
[27] Mahoun = Mahomet, i.e. the Devil.
[28] The Editor of the Scottish Text Society's edition of Dunbar points out that "Macfadyane" is a reference to the traitor of the War of Independence:
"This Makfadzane till Inglismen was suorn;
Eduard gaiff him bath Argill and Lorn".
Blind Harry, VII, ll. 627-8.
[29] "Far northward in a nuke" is a reference to the cave in which Macfadyane was killed by Duncan of Lorne (Bk. VIII, ll. 866-8).